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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shutdown by Shaun Meeks Forgotten Tomb Press. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Miseria’s Chorale gathers together award winners, bestsellers, veterans and exciting new stars in one mammoth anthology that represents a broad definition of horror, taking readers on a journey to unspeakable realms and nightmarish self-discovery. With stories from 48 of the world’s most frightening and unique voices in modern horror, including Aaron J French, Adam Millard, Alana I Capria, Alexandre Mandarino, Anna Taborska, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Bear Weiter, Bruce Memblatt, BT Joy, Cameron Suey, Caren Gussoff, Carmen Tudor, Carl Barker, Christian A Larsen, Christina Murphy, Christopher David Rosales, Christopher Hivner, Christopher Nadeau, Douglas J Ogurek, Dy Loveday, Fred Skolnik, Glen Damien Campbell, Jay Wilburn, James S Dorr, Jon Ingold, Jon Michael Kelley, K Trap Jones, Ken Goldman, Lance Manion, Lucy Taylor, Meghan Arcuri, Michael Thomas-knight, Nick Kimbro, Patrick Lacey, Patrick Tumblety, Paul Kane, Pete Aldin, Peter Baltensperger, Peter Crowther, Peter Mark May, Richard Farren Barber, Richard Godwin, RWW Greene, Ryan Neil Falcone, Sergio Palumbo, Shaun Meeks, Tim Jeffreys, and Todd Keisling. Edited by David Edward Nell. In Green Remembered by Christopher Nadeau Worm Garden by Patrick Lacey Becoming The Beast by Christian A. Larsen Sowing The Seeds by Bear Weiter Hiding by Pete Aldin Happy Thoughts by Nick Kimbro When Karen Met Her Mountain by Todd Keisling One by Cameron Suey Asrai by Carmen Tudor Ripped From Heaven by Patrick Tumblety The Eye That Ate The Sky by Alexandre Mandarino The Catacomb Enigma by Jon Michael Kelley From Suicide Station by Adam Millard The Cherry Tree by James S. Dorr Because The Night Is Dark And Full Of Monsters by Sergio Palumbo The Story by Aurelio Rico Lopez III Choosing My Confession by Meghan Arcuri Visit by Richard Godwin Bedfordshire by Peter Crowther The Face Of Death by Paul Kane The Wind by Ryan Neil Falcone Tomb Of The Initiate by Aaron J. French Thrall by Richard Farren Barber Evacuation by Jay Wilburn The Gatehouse by Anna Taborska Exit To Dove’s Tail by Ken Goldman Motel Impression by Michael Thomas-Knight Kicks by Carl Barker Cracks by Jon Ingold Give Me Convenience by Shaun Meeks Red Harvest by K. Trap Jones King Of A Distant Star by Tim Jeffreys Trauma Children by Lucy Taylor Cicada by Caren Gussoff A Feeble Gleam Of Stars by R.W.W. Greene Letters by Christina Murphy The Watching Room by Glen Damien Campbell Destruction: A Plague Story by Bruce Memblatt What Lurks Below by Peter Baltensperger The Shadow On The Hill by Peter Mark May That Sinking Feeling by Lance Manion Tug by Douglas J. Ogurek The Banquet by Fred Skolnik Formaldehyde Fairies by Alana I. Capria Lily In The Ether by Christopher Hivner The Girl Beneath by Dy Loveday Extremity by B.T. Joy Instantaneous by Christopher David Rosales. Christian A Larsen – USA-born author of Losing Touch. Previously featured in Chiral Mad, Shadow Masters, Zippered Flesh 2, The Best of the Horror Society 2013, Bleed, A Feast of Frights, Dark Light 3, and So It Goes: A Tribute To Kurt Vonnegut. “Larsen writes with an expert hand and keeps you immersed in a novel reminiscent to early King.” – Michael Bailey. Peter Crowther – Multi-award winning UK-born author of By Wizard Oak, Jewels in the Dust and Darkness Falling: The Forever Twilight Series. Editor of Postscripts and founder of PS Publishing. “In our minds there’s a curtain which we generally prefer to leave in place. It’s a modern thing, and a very old thing. Peter Crowther has a cunning craft of twitching the curtain. He draws it only partially aside. We glimpse only part of the horror. The rest is left to miscegenate with our own private horrors.” – Brian W. Aldiss. Lucy Taylor – HWA Bram Stoker Award-winning USA-born author of the novel The Safety of Unknown Cities. Previously featured in the Exotic Gothic Series. “The Queen of Erotic Horror.” – Jasmine Sailing. Paul Kane – UK-born author of The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead and The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy. Previously featured in Hellbound Hearts and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23. “One hell of a talented and visionary writer.” – Simon Clark. Aaron J French – HWA member and USA-born author of Up From Soil Fresh, Aberrations of Reality, The Order in the Dreaming in Darkness, and the upcoming Songs of the Satyrs. Editor of Monk Punk and The Shadow of the Unknown. Previously featured in Dark Discoveries, After Death, Shadow Masters, Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations, Pellucid Lunacy, and Chiral Mad. “Even though I’m familiar with French’s work, I was surprised at how creative each story was. Each setting is different, each character unique. The imagery French includes is evocative and rich.” – Vincenzo Bilof. James S Dorr – HWA/SFWA member and USA-born author of The Tears of Isis, Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance, and Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret. Previously featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Yellow Bat Review, among four hundred plus publications. “James Dorr knows how to spin a tale of horror. It’s not just in the gore or the odd characters, but the way he can twist the plot and shock you with the frightening truth.” – Christine Rains. Richard Godwin – UK-born author of Apostle Rising, Mr Glamour, Piquant: Tales of the Mustard Man, and One Lost Summer. Previously featured in Techno-Goth Cthulhu, True Dark, Atomic Noir, Pulp Ink 2, Drunk on the Moon, Dreams of Duality, and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime. “A master of his craft.” – Matt Hilton. Todd Keisling – USA-born author of A Life Transparent and The Liminal Man. Finalist for Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Book Award 2013. Two-time recipient of the Oswald Research and Creativity Prize for fiction. “A great writer operating outside of the traditional cookie-cutter mold of traditional publishing. Indie authors and readers should take notice of Todd Keisling.” – Stacey Cochran. Fred Skolnik – Dartmouth Medal-winning USA-born, Israel-based editor of Encyclopaedia Judaica and author of The Other Shore. Previously featured in TriQuarterly, Gargoyle, The MacGuffin, Minnetonka Review, Los Angeles Review, Prism Review, Words & Images, and Literary House Review. Anna Taborska – British Film Festival Los Angeles Award-winning UK-born filmmaker and Eric Hoffer Award Honoree author of For Those Who Dream Monsters and Bloody Britain. Previously featured in Black Books of Horror, Best New Writing 2011, Best New Werewolf Tales Vol 1, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 4. “Future prediction – Anna Taborska will be one of the biggest names in horror.” – William Cook. Patrick Lacey – USA-born author. Previously featured in Chiral Mad, The Horror Zine, Dark Moon Digest, and Bleed. Ken Goldman – HWA affiliate member and USA-born author of You Had Me At Arrgh! Five Uneasy Pieces, Donny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Star-Crossed, Desiree, and Of A Feather. Previously featured in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, among over 680 publications. “Mr. Goldman shows definite flashes of brilliance in his descriptive prose and atmospherics.” – Page Horrific. K. Trap Jones – HWA member and Royal Palm Literary Award-winning USA-born author of The Sinner. Previously featured in Cellar Door, DOA II, Splatterpunk Saints, The Best of Cruentus Libri Press, and Long Pig. “K Trap’s works…walk the jagged line between reality and fiction.” Jon Michael Kelley – Pushcart-nominated USA-born author of Seraphim. Previously featured in Chiral Mad, Night Terrors, Best of Millennium Sci Fi & Fantasy, New Genre II, and Enter At Your Own Risk: Dark Muses, Spoken Silences. “Kelley is part poet, part prophet, but a true master of fear, through and through.” – Joe McKinney. Christopher David Rosales – Multi-award winning USA-born author. Winner of the McNamara Creative Arts Grant. Finalist for the Faulkner- Wisdom Award 2011 & 2012. Three-time winner of the Center of the American West Writing Award. Meghan Arcuri – USA-born author. Previously featured in Chiral Mad, Anthology: Year Two: Inner Demons Out and Angels Cried. “Meghan Arcuri is a literary marvel.” – Michael Bailey. Jon Ingold – UK-born author of Flaws. Previously featured in Black Static and Interzone Magazine. As an interactive author, has been nominated for numerous XYZZY Awards and has won on multiple occasions for Best Game, Best Story and Best Setting awards for All Roads in 2001. Bruce Memblatt – USA-born author. Previously featured in Aphelion, Nameless Magazine, Strange Weird and Wonderful Magazine, The Horror Zine, Midwest Literary Magazine, Parsec Ink, The Feathertale Review, Yellow Mama and other publications. “Memblatt has that gift of making a story brief but complete, creating people in whom we believe, taking those people on a strange journey. When a writer can provide that degree of shock at the very end of a story he has succeeded in entering that realm of keepers of the haunted house – or, in other words, a king of horror stories.” – Grady Harp. Dy Loveday – Australia-born author of Illusion: Book 1 of Daughters of the Abyss. Previously featured in Rapunzel’s Daughters. “Dy has a fantastic imagination. She writes brilliant stories.” – Allyson Lindt. Alexandre Mandarino – Brazil-born author of Hiriburu and Sherlock Holmes: A aventura do Penhasco dos Suicidas. Editor of Hyperpulp. Bear Weiter – USA-born author. Previously featured in LocoThology 2013, Fish, In Situ, Phobia, Black Static, Atomic Age Cthulhu, and LORE. Adam Millard – UK-born author of thirteen novels, including Dead West, Dead Cells, Dead Line, Dead Frost, Skinners, Chasing Nightmares, and Peter Crombie, Teenage Zombie. Previously featured in Bleed, Fading Light, Strange Versus Lovecraft, Urban Occult, and Horrific History. “This guy must be one of the best kept secrets in British horror writing.” – Sean T.